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- https://gastropod.com/
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- Science and Technology
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- Biology, Food, General Science, History, Nature
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Gastropod looks at food from the perspective of science and history. The podcast is nicely designed and is produced and presented by Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley, who are both journalists with an academic background in the sciences. Witty and stimulating in equal measure and with an archive going back to 2014, there are two episodes a month, each one a mixture of short items and longer in-depth reports. Episodes have covered caffeine, fungi, alcohol consumption, the calorie as a unit of energy and snails. Each podcast comes with notes, and is often accompanied by stills and short videos. The podcasts are available on Soundcloud, iTunes and as RSS feeds.
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- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg/about
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Chemistry, History, Physics
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Organisations
A series of engaging, lively videos produced for the Royal Society. The format is simple: in each episode video journalist Brady Haran and Keith Moore, the Royal Society’s Librarian, look at a single object in the society’s collections and discuss its scientific and historical significance. Among the objects uncovered are Captain Cook’s quadrant, the letters of H.G. Wells, a very powerful 18th century magnet and some very expensive 19th century photographs.
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- https://www.kanopystreaming.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Agriculture, American Studies, Archaeology, Art, Biology, Business Studies, Chemistry, Dance, Design, Economics, Education, Engineering, Film Studies, General Science, Geography, German Studies, History, Information Studies, Mathematics, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Photography, Physics, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Technology, Women’s Studies
- Type of resource
- AV services, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
On-demand streaming platform for educational institutions featuring over 26,000 films from leading producers including PBS, BBC, the Criterion Collection, First Run Features, Media Education Foundation, but also many other smaller, niche producers. The site offers both a platform from which to stream films as well as providing a video hosting service. A full range of academic subjects is covered and many of the films, programmes and clips are not otherwise available on DVD. The site also features detailed analytics so that librarians can more easily assess how the site is being used by students. Subscription is based on paying only for the films which students and institutions actually watch.
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- Link
- http://vectorsdev.usc.edu/NYCsound/777b.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Social Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
This site aims to recreate the soundscape of New York in the early twentieth century. Contemporary newsreel footage, with the live sound foregrounded, provides a fascinating perspective on a defining aspect of the urban experience during the Jazz Age. The bulk of the clips are taken from the 1920s but the time span runs between 1900 - 1932. Website navigation is via a beautifully designed map of New York city and the surrounding areas. The newsreel footage (mainly Fox Movietone) and sounds are enhanced by the presence of noise pollution complaints (some with documentation) from the time, taken from the Municipal Archives of New York, ranging from printing plants in Brooklyn to barking dogs in Queens.
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- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/
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- General Science, Geography, History, Nature
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
National Geographic Channel (also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo) is the American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Fox Cable Networks division of 21st Century Fox and the National Geographic Society.
The channel broadcasts non-fiction television programmes produced by National Geographic and other production companies. It features documentaries with factual content involving nature, science, culture, and history, plus some reality and pseudo-scientific entertainment programming.
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- https://vimeo.com/firehorseshowreel
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Politics and Government, Religious Studies, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Footage Sources, Streaming/Download
A stock footage library, The Firehorse Archive collection offers access to thousands of raw video clips from the Arab world and the Middle East. The footage includes social life, heritage, religious communities, landscape and interviews with people from all walks of life. Compilation tapes are available and the archive can be searched by keyword or via country.
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- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- American Studies, History
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
History in Motion is the moving image pages of the Eye Witness to History American website. The 20 film clips are arranged chronologically beginning with THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903) and ending with WORLD WAR II - THE HOME FRONT featuring women defence workers.
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- https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/a_history_of_the_world.aspx
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
A 100 part series on BBC Radio 4 written and presented by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, exploring world history from two million years ago to the present. Objects featured in the series can be explored and their stories discovered in the Museum galleries. Episodes can be searched by the twenty themes such as The Rise of World Faiths and Mass Production, Mass Persuasion.
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dwbwz/episodes/downloads
- Subject
- Art, German Studies, History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, explores 600 years of Germany’s complex history using objects, art, landmarks and literature. The series was broadcast in 30 episodes on BBC Radio 4 in 2014 and is available indefinitely.
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- https://prisonsmemoryarchive.com/
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- Social Sciences
- Subject
- History, Politics and Government, Psychology, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Journals, Lists, Streaming/Download, Web Links
The Prisons Memory Archive has recorded 175 interviews and walk-and-talk recordings with those who passed through Armagh Gaol, the Maze and Long Kesh Prison during the 30 years of the violent conflict about the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. The range of participants in the PMA includes prison staff, prisoners, visitors, teachers, chaplains and probation officers. The testimonies have been grouped by theme to aid navigation e.g. release, education, coping, visits. The PMA is an ongoing project and new interviews are being added to the site. The website also provides a filmography of feature films and documentaries which deal with prisoners’ experiences.
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